IndieWeb Carnival May 2026: Roundup of love letters

Happy June 1st!

Last month, I hosted the IndieWeb Carnival where I encouraged bloggers to write a love letter to something they care about or are passionate about. 33 people (+ me) answered the call and published a love letter in their blog.

It's been an incredible month for me because day after day, I've got to read so many positive stories from people around the world and that has made the month extraordinarily fun. It's not just the love letters though. I've discovered many new blogs and had many wonderful discussions with people who submitted their entries.

I highly recommend checking out all of these blogs. Read their love letter and then check out what else they are doing and writing about.

This roundup post is a love letter in itself. A love letter to this wonderful community, to personal websites and blogs, to all the people writing and publishing their thoughts and experiences in the open web for all of us to read. To everyone who participated: thank you ❤️.

The day starts with a morning and Beto Dealmeida wrote a love letter to those magical moments that start a new day and shares their peaceful morning routine that lasts until the leaf blowers start.

Quite a few people shared their love to people — either specific ones or groups.

Brendan's love letter to the unknown discusses his cousin's impact on his love for Dungeons & Dragons. Andrei wrote a love letter to his younger self with wonderful life advice. Pat has great friends who deserved a love letter. Rasagy wrote a love letter to his local IndieWebClub community in Bangalore.

Christopher wrote an appreciation post to Francis Bacon, winther is a fan of Isabella Huppert's films and shared a few good movie recommendations while at it. Eula wrote a love letter to Air Groove from Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

The great outdoors received a few love letters as well. Both James and axxuy wrote about their love for walking outside. Shellsharks enjoys the outside in general and Frances confessed love to trees specifically. Thomas wrote a lovely letter to the joy, freedom, solidarity and love of bicycles.

It's not a surprise that many people who IndieWeb Carnival reaches are techies and that was well reflected in these love letters. Sometimes that journey can be bumpy like with Cesar who wrote a love-hate letter for coding. Both Dale and ThinkRoot expressed their gratitude to software developers who build open source solutions for everyone to enjoy. Sebastian wrote a love letter to RSS, a sentiment I can personally express as well.

Steve wrote about his childhood love for typesetting that started when he was 6 years old. Lesley's love letter was for flashcards and spaced repetition. For the past decade, Stefan has been building creative online bots and wrote about what appeals to him about building them and his bot that shares views from the South Pole.

Equally common group in the personal web are creatives. Ruben and V.H. wrote about photography from two perspectives: the love for old school cameras and the inspiration of other photographers, respectively. Britt wrote a love letter to creative spaces throughout her life. Sara's love letter was for doing things before you are ready and a great reminder that to become great at something, you need to start somewhere first.

Zachary wrote a wonderful piece about curiosity. Two people wrote about music: Ginny wrote a love letter to Chinese Music Shows and Daniel went down the mycelial musical rabbit hole. Leia's love is for cosplays as expressed in the love letter full of great stories and stunning costumes.

And then there's all the others that I couldn't find a good category for. I wrote about how I love the library bus that comes to my doorstep every Friday afternoon. Leandro wrote about the love for blogging and discovering your own way of writing. Ben said goodbye to autumn that's making way for winter. Tony wrote a love letter to Newcastle upon Tyne that's been his home for the past six and a half years. Tabitha wrote about her favourite mug, a broken handle and the Japanese practice of kintsugi.

Finally, Brendan wrote a love letter to everything. What a grandiouse and wonderful way to end this roundup post.

34 wonderful love letters. The amount of love expressed and shared is so wonderful.

If you wrote an entry and I failed to mention it and link to it here, please get in touch! I tried to double check everything but it is possible that through all this, something fell through the cracks and disappeared into the void.

June carnival is hosted by Alex Hsu on a theme of "No way!?":

Has anything ever happened in your life that felt like a movie plot twist? Something that made you go “No way!?” but turned out to be completely true?